Breeding Shrimp Experiment: 4 Colors Mixed! 

Had red, orange and yellow shrimp. Now I have a strong colony with various shades of orange. Agree it must be a strong genetic variant. 🧡

Instructions unclear, i have now started a shrimp war

Honestly I love the little patterns that form on my "wild form" neos, they're awesome!

from what I understand, there are four lineages of neocaridina shrimps, ones that were originally bed to be red (cherries) ones that were bred to be brown and blue (Blue Diamond) and one that was bred to be yellow and green, and one to be black. There is also a sub species that makes pearl varieties (they cant breed with the others) They all started from Wild Type colouration. The colours that we see as red orange and blue are all variations on gene expression that are entirely recessive traits. Cherries (including sakuras, fire red, kanoko, red rili blue, blue rili, jelly blue, kohaku, and red taiwan) and orange neos (orange, orange rili, light orange, orange neon, pumpkin, and orange sakura) and oddly enough Variable green and Jade Green shrimps are ALL THE SAME LINEAGE, they will breed and produce colours similar to the parents because both sides of the family carry the recessive traits that create those colours, with dominant (wild type) traits being more of a mutation chance than a guarantee. Shoko, Chocolate, bloody mary (its actually a brown variant!) blue diamond, blue dream, and topaz are in the same lineage. so their breeding, similar to the largest and most diverse one, will have similar results for the same reasons. Deep blue, blue carbon rilli, blue velvet, black rose, carbon rili gold back, and carbon rili are from the same lineage, so same goes for them. Where Yellow, neon yellow, yellow rili, and yellow sakura, and some green flavours (more neon) are a very small very isolated family. if you cross the lineages of these shrimps, you have a far greater chance of losing the bright colours because those recessive genes are two different sets of recessive gene expressions. and the dominant wild type colouration will appear as a result. Any of the pearl varieties (blue pearl, white pearl, amber pearl are a different subspecies of Neocardina (not davidi, its like palomona or something) and they CANNOT interbreed with your davidis

I really wanna try something like that in the future, because it is so interesting! I also suggest looking up some neocaridina color breeding chart. It definitely depends on what linebreeding the colors came from first. The further apart they are, the more likely you will get just brown shrimp. Like for example yellow shrimp come from a completely different wild type than red. That's why you end up with a lot of wild type ones when crossing them. Blue jelly, orange, orange rili and green come from the red cherry shrimps, so they are more closely related and you get less brown. The blue dreams/ blue diamonds on the other hand come from wild chocolate colored shrimp. You cross them with yellow, you again end up with brown ones. If you cross them with red, you have chance of producing totally black shrimp or even black rili and blue black rilis. It's so cool :D

"Just play around with some of the genetics of different things." Pretty prolific statement, dude.

I had a variety of “Skittle” shrimps in my tank which have interbred over the last year or so and the varieties in colour and patterns are really cool to see.

I honestly think the wild type look just as cool but in their own way so I never was worried about mixing colors, but this is a great experiment to show that it's not all black and white (or brown I guess haha)!

Don't forget to add in outside factors like substrate.

Really cool! Love seeing these types of experiments!

Cool experiment to share. I crossed 7 color and pattern variants. Some more interesting than others. I now have 30+ colonies continuing to breed. Some second and third generation crosses, of which I have no way of tracking, the results start becoming more interesting, with wildtype shrimp with colored patterns and highlights. The Neo colors all seem to stem from 4 main bloodlines. Red shrimp and blue shrimp can both occur in different bloodlines or come from the same one. Your resulting cross will depend on those bloodlines. I have produced several "weird" ones, the most standout being a "snot green jelly". Not exactly the most appealing. Keep experimenting.

Such a fun experiment! Thanks for sharing the results! 😊❤🦐

Definitely excited to see more shrimp videos! That's actually how I found your channel a couple years ago. Those old shrimp videos! They're such fun little creatures! 🙏✌️

Keep up the good work! Looking forward to your next shrimp breeding experiment video!

Love the really light see through blue

Honestly one of my favorite videos of yours! I just love neos! 🦐

Try blue and red. I want purple shrimp!

I love how the first shrimp looks like it’s just moonwalking :3

Thanks for doing this! Very interesting results. 😊

this is great, this should be a great series to see many Shrimp variants

Cool video ! I got a bag of mixed colour shrimp too and split them between my 3 tanks . So interesting to see all the combinations!!😊

Love to see you still on the grind 😅. Keep up the good work.

You are the unusual shrimp. The one with spots and colors. Some people see it as weird and faulty, and that you’re not one of them. But we see it is what makes my so beautiful and unique and exciting. Be yourself ❤️ you are loved

Brilliant and interesting shrimp experiments!

Between watching you (one of my top favorite channels) and other shrimp breeders, it’s encouraging to see that some colonies just crash out or don’t do as well. I have felt bad over my own less-than-successful attempts, but when I look at my 4 current experiments, it’s the same ratio as yours! We just gotta keep trying, tweaking things, and also recognizing that nature can’t be controlled 100% I love my shrimp and just got a shrimp tattoo ❤

Awesome experiment! You give me inspiration to do my own experiment with these shrimp

Nice video. Glad you took the time to do this. My personal experience is a mix of Red and Blue Jelly. I ended up getting a ton of red rilis and a few blue/red spider man looking things.

Very cool experiment, I really enjoy this sort of content 😊.

I’ve been worried about setting my skittles tank up because I didn’t want a ton of wild type. This made me feel much better!

Best video I’ve seen in a while, nicely done my friend

I put some reds and blues together and ended up with very unique looking red, blue shrimp, they are a light blue base with red sections on them. I have not seen any other shrimp like them.

Truly appreciate your channel

Out of my 4 tanks 2 have shrimp, one tank has red cherry and the other has blue jellies, I've never mixed them But The blue jelly tank has so much variation in color there are some super dark one that almost look black and some really light. That's to be expected it whatever right The cool thing in my opinion is that in the red cherry tank I know for a fact I have never added any other shrimp of any other color. And these are more consistent but sometimes rarely ill get a super dark one but even more rarely a yellow will pop up. It always an amazing surprise when I see the yellow it insane

My favourite were the translucent blue with bright yellow eggs. Really nice combo

This is cool man! Love your videos!

Doing the best and sharing your experience is excellent work..no shy if fail result maybe in doing experience can be happen.i love it.thank you so much dear friend.

Cool experiment mate! years ago up north I did a bit of collecting shrimp for Gunther Schmida to photograph along with Dr. Bruce Hansen, it was amazing at the variety of shrimp we found, especially in the South Johnstone River, I haven't done it since another mate saw a 4 metre Crocodile in the same spot I was collecting 2 days after I left, every time I go there now I have that in the back of my mind as the mud was knee deep and the water was up to your waist you would never get out if one come up to you 🐊😐

Great job. Thank you for this content 👍👍👍👍👍

Interesting experiment. I have done something similar, have a 29 gallon with multiple colors of all kinds placed in there about 2-3 years ago. They've thrived. I did wind up with a lot of green colored wild-looking shrimp, some browns, and a whole lot of cinnamon (I guess cherry red but much more diluted). I still see some solid colors here and there, especially red and blue with black splotching, plus some rillis. Interestingly, there is one color type that seems to be dominant in this tank- the blue/black shrimp. I have a bunch of these very dark blue-black solid color shrimp still and they're still going strong.

The colors on those shrimp are incredible. Mother Nature at her best!

Can't lie I like this dude fish channel it pretty relaxing to watch and see what happens , keep up good work

Those lighter and darkwr blues are really nice

Thanks

Orange are really strong shrimps. I started with 15 now I have around 500 hundreds. Love them

A line of those smokey blue shrimp would be really cool. Almost like a dirty blue jelly.

Great video, thanks. Understanding this wasn't really scientific, it was still very interesting. Again, thanks. Gary

Great experiment! I'm glad to see that the world doesn't implode when mixing shrimp colors, lol! I had a handful of cherry rili shrimp and added blue dream. I kid you not, I got a red, white, and blue shrimp.

The oerfect kind of content for me now thanks bro

Add some java moss and driftwood and see if you get better results.

blue and orange definitely makes green!

Shrimp genetics are pretty complicated. If I remember correctly there’s a RU-vidr called some thing like “the mysteries living in your aquarium” or maybe “the secrets hiding in your aquarium” something like that that does a really good video on it.

I think the wild type look really cool for those who say have those natural looking sets ups.

Thanks for doing that experiment. I have thousands and thousands of shrimp across 47 aquariums. I do see the occasional wild color shrimps that people talk about but they just don’t overwhelm the aquarium like the Internet says it will. It’s also worth noting that I will occasionally see a random color pop out of my red cherry, shrimp colonies. I’ve seen green and blue and the wild color. It’s all very fascinating but after years of doing this, I still have vibrant, red cherry shrimp.

I had 3 red shrimp… somehow got pale blue and blue/red mixed shrimp… the bloodlines are definitely something very interesting. Never expected blue to come in from red shrimp

Было очень интересно посмотреть на такой эксперимент 🔬 👍спасибо за такую возможность

I am planning on doing something similar with Endler Guppies, mix and matching different colourations to see what comes out, I only have wild type and tuxedo endlers at the moment but when I get my hands on some Japan Blue and snakeskin endler I want to see what cross breeding them looks like. I'd love to see what yours could turn out like if you did the same!

I had blue jelly and red cherry or sakura neocaridina. Some combinations where absolutely stunning. Some were part blue and part red. Mostly blue base and stripes or spots or legs were red

Love this. My mix of shrimp keep making solid black or really dark blue with a yellow line down their back. They are pretty crazy looking. Always wonder if my shrimp are making something people would want. I love them.

gotta love the shrimp

Awesome!

Would be fun to test out with the blackish wild ones+red/orange. Just the wild ones and see if they could produce the colors they were made from when recessive genes combined down the line... Also see what the pale ones combined could do

my shrimp are all back to wt now :( I started with bloody marry, yellow fire and orange sakuras in a tank together but I also got blue bolt in a seperated tank and had some orange individuums in my second generation. i guess there was some red bolt DNA in my blue bolt shrimp. Very intersting video!

beautiful shrimp 😍😍

Cross breeding different coloured Neo shrimps do cause their offspring to revert back into their wild forms, which is what most people know as "brown/dark green/dull" coloured shrimps. This is due to most of their defined genetics being diluted over time. For this to happen, it would likely bring you into minimally F10++ generations before it takes place. P.S. Do note that these wild dark green variants are different from what the rest of the hobby know as Jade Green shrimps. Any wild variant, regardless of whether it's dull or brown or dark green, usually have unevenly coated bodies which are not fully opaque. There will also be "lighter spots" around the bodies, similar to humans having moles. Hope this helps to clarify. Also, keep up the good work, great videos!

dude this would be a crazy science lesson

Very cool

I started off with 5 yellow fire shrimp and 2 brown wild type and 3 clear wild type. 2yrs on, and I have a rainbow of reds, oranges, yellows, browns, clear, blacks and greens. Many have the yellow fire streak down their backs which is pretty cool no matter what their base colour is. No blues or rili types.

I love your channel dude ❤this is the 🐝 knees

I’m sick in bed watching videos about shrimp. Not what I imagined I’d be doing but here we are. I love the little dance they’re doing with each other. Is this a mating dance?

Thank you! How often do you change the water?

I have a tank that had a few cull neos in it that were either brown or clear and in just one generation I got a fully melanistic shrimp, a candy cane, and fully red cherry haha.

Have you have to deal with planaria and what do you recommend to remove them for good?

Would love watching you pour a bunch all at the same time and do a keep or smash sort of thing

I had full red colonies a few years ago. I bought some random cheap red cherries, not very high grade at all. And separated them into two tanks once their numbers rose a bit. After a long while, they ended up all the way to fire red grades!! Awesome in itself but then after a another year, out of nowhere, I had a yellow shrimp!! Just in one colony ofc. A pure yellow shrimp, it was so cool. Eventually the yellow shrimp bred, and there were both yellow, and red. They made some oranges on the way but it would go back to the primary colours. The second colony that was only reds lowered in quality to maybe high Sakura grades. It was super interesting to observe

I wonder if they prefer to breed with shrimp that are more similar in color than not. Very very cool video!

Nice content

Could you try to breed chili rasbora? I can't seems to find much guide online

The experiment no one knew we needed

Would be interesting to see you line breed the orange rillis!

Those light blue are called blue jellies in my place here in the philippines .. was able to produce black diamonds and shoku( chocolate colored ones) by mixing blue with oranges ..

That one Rilli looks like it's berried up with miniature tennis balls.

Always interesting to see what possibilities spring up. Love your experiments Nick

may i ask what kind of conditioner you are using 1:10, and what kind of water is the best for them? Harder water or softer ones? 25°C i saw u use. May i ask what do you feed them? Thanks in advance :-)

Great experiment. Can you please your tap water parameters...i want to have shrimp tank and i wonder if my water is good without any modifications. Thanks

I've kept shrimp for going on 15 years. Over time they 100% become duller, or clear. On stray green shrimp set me back a year with my carbon rilli colony.

Have Red & Blue's which are creating alot of interesting clearer guys with spots, and alot of blues, no reds yet

Do you have a video on how to breed and raise shrimp?

Could someone tell me about Mendel genetics scheme of shrimps color ?

Love from a Bangladeshi shrimp keeper ❤🇧🇩

I would love to see another documentary style video made by you but this time about a platypus!

I wish the video was a bit longer. But love the content as always. Very well produced

is this how we get all the different shades of colors? like blue dream vs blue velvet - dream are much darker than velvet - so if you culled the shrimp or put the light blues in their own tank, you think they'll keep producing light blues? I need to try this out since I got blue and yellow shrimp to experiment with

Ah, the young Mendel and his shrimp...

damn, i got pretty lucky then, i put some blue yellow and red together and got a very light green out of it. mostly seethrough but with a tint of green. :D maybe ill pull a few aside and see if i can get luckier and get towards a a jade.

Do you have any plans to ship to wa? I love shrimp so this will be a good video

I had moss balls in a jar for 7 years but about 4 weeks ago i got 2 blue diamond 1 jade and 1 black rose but after looking at my 750ml jar i want my shrimp to breed so i got a 10L tank but wanted to know should i get other plants or are 2 merimo moss balls enough for a 10L shrimp tank or will my shrimp breed and eat my moss balls?

That is a really cool experiment, you should do stuff like that with different fish.

What do you feed them?

Could you make a video about breeding Indostomus?

I really wanted to see red and blue!